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 17km (10.6 miles)  Willington to Bickerton Map
1. Go left along John Street for 250 metres from the bottom of Sandy Lane, then over a stile on the right. Follow field edges and turn right down a sunken track. Turn right along the brook, go over the bridge and around the field edge to Wood Lane.
2. Take the track opposite. Cross the stile on the left, then follow field edges. From the stile part way along the woodland, strike out diagonally right across the field to the lane end at Fishersgreen. Continue on the track ahead signposted to Beeston. Go around a field and out onto Road Street (A51).
3. Cross with great care. Go over the stile on the left and carry on through the fields. Turn right along the green lane, then cross the fields. In the first field continue straight ahead where the hedge turns sharply left. Otherwise look for kissing gates and footbridges ahead or keep to field edges to reach Crib Lane. Go down Pudding Lane opposite and through a kissing gate on the right before the house. Go through three fields to Huxley Lane.
4. Go through the kissing gate opposite. Head just to the right of the overgrown pond in the field to the canal bridge at Wharton's Lock. Cross the canal, then go under the railway and up the fields to the road. Turn left along the road, past Beeston Castle, and follow the path alongside the castle wall. Go through the woodland to Tattenhall Lane at Tabernacle Cottage.
5. Cross the road slightly to the left up a few steps to the kissing gate and follow the path through three fields via a small bridge to Horsley Lane. Turn right then left up the next track. After a major track crossroads take the steps on the left. Climb through woodland and cross two fields to Rock Lane. Turn left, then left again into Hill Lane.
6. Go through a kissing gate on the right and follow the path to the lane. Turn left, then right along the track. Go up a flight of stone steps on the left and carry on through the woodland around Bulkeley Hill. Head down to a kissing gate. Cross the field diagonally right to the top of Coppermine Lane with its blue information board.
7. Cross the lane and take the track opposite. Pass the cottage and the end of the farm drive continue downhill and then bear left through a wooden kissing gate. Follow the path around the hill, past the trig. point at Rawhead. From the keeper’s cottage at Chiflik Farm follow the stony track down to Wrexham Road (A534).
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